This Week's Top Stories: November 12 - 17, 2012

Welcome to another instalment in our weekly news digest where the team at PSU Towers picks our favourite slices of gaming gossip from the past seven days. See below for the week’s highlights.

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GTA V lets you play as the protagonist and antagonist

Rockstar has revealed that Grand Theft Auto V’s focus on multiple playable characters means gamers can take on the role of both the protagonist and antagonist. The hotly-anticipated crime sequel allows gamers to hop between three criminals; Franklin, Michael and Trevor.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II sold 10,000 units in just five minutes at the U.K. branch of Blockbuster, it has emerged. The military shooter went on sale at midnight with Blockbuster opening 450 stores across the region to prepare for the game’s release

Last week we reported that Future Publishing would be shuttering the Official PlayStation Magazine in North America, and now it has emerged that a further two mags have suffered the same fate across the pond – PSM3 and Xbox World

Sony doesn't take kindly to hackers, what with all those PSN issues and PSP custom firmware. With the release of the PlayStation 3 lv0 bootloader key leak comes the ability to hack Sony's black warhorse to play online with real, non-hacking users.

Sony's Bend Studio today listed a job opportunity looking for a developer for another PlayStation Vita title. Known for developing the PS Vita launch title Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Bend Studio offering a position called Senior Staff Technical Animator at their offices in Bend, Oregon.